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British researchers are trialing a new blockchain-based certificate designed to manage COVID-19 risks across supply chains.<\/p>\n
In a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0on April 21, Professor Nassim Belbaly, director of Birmingham City Business School, noted that \u201ccoronavirus represents a crisis of trust because we cannot any longer automatically trust goods or suppliers.\u201d<\/p>\n New, secure and automated solutions are therefore being sought to help reassure consumers and suppliers that goods across the value chain do not pose health risks to themselves or to others.<\/p>\n To tackle this post-pandemic landscape, a newly-launched \u201c4th Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies Centre\u201d is trialing a blockchain-based Coronavirus Clearance Certificate (CCC), issued by The Transnational Transparent Procurement Foundation (TTPF) in the U.K.<\/p>\n The center is also known as \u201cBCU-CCEG 4IR,\u201d an acronym for the two collaborating founders behind it; Birmingham City University (BCU) and the non-profit Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance (CCEG).<\/p>\n Since its founding in 2013, the CCEG has operated as a global think tank, with 165,000 members contributing to its research and development of social value tools that use emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and 5G.<\/p>\n The CCC certificate can reportedly be issued to organisations, products and even people to confirm that they have followed appropriate steps to mitigate risks from COVID-19.<\/p>\n The challenges posed by the current public health crisis tie in to wider concerns about compliance and ethical practices in modern logistics and value chains. As Olinga Taeed, a visiting professor of blockchain at Birmingham City University, argues:<\/p>\n As a vehicle for tracking the life cycle of any given product, for example hand sanitizer, the certificate will initially be trialed in the U.K. Midlands, a region that has been severely impacted by the pandemic.<\/p>\n As\u00a0reported<\/a>, the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications recently announced a partnership with the European Commission and University College London to coordinate various blockchain solution providers that are tackling the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n Blockchain specialists and IoT firms have also stepped in to\u00a0adapt<\/a>\u00a0their solutions to COVID-19-focused data management and sharing.<\/p>\nWhat the certificate offers<\/h2>\n
\u201c[The certificate] confirms that a supplier adheres to highest standards of public health, sustainability, anti-bribery and even modern slavery. And in this case, we can verify the level of supply risk due to the coronavirus. It represents the future of supply chain management.”<\/em><\/h3>\n
<\/h2>\nTailoring the blockchain to public health challenges<\/h2>\n